This guide provide readers with essential background information for studying and practicing with Patrul Rinpoche's Words of My Perfect Teacher - the text that has more for more than a century served as the reliable sourcebook to the spiritual practices common to all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. By offering chapter-by-chapter commentary on this renowned text, Khenpo Pelzang provides a fresh perspective on the role of the teacher, the stages of the path, the view of the Three Jewels, Madhyamika, the basis of transcendent wisdom, and more.